books.google.co.uk - Possessing only quasi-amateur standing in the early 1500s, London's adult professional theater troupes became the basis for an enterprise that by the end of the century was to provide livelihoods for many stage players and businessmen and their families. William Ingram here reconstructs the economic...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Business_of_Playing.html?id=-0PqSqgTWVEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Business of Playing